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“Today I threw the Christians to the lions but I got away just in time,” my mother announces as I pull into the parking lot at Applebee’s. Later I learn that she watched “Ben Hur” at adult daycare but today I don’t know that. I respond carefully, focusing on her lifelong appetite for grilled salmon.

Thirteen years ago, my experience with Alzheimer's disease began. My mother was "diagnosed" first. When A.D. began to rear it's ugly head, my mom had recently been diagnosed with macular degeneration. We saw every opthamologist and retinologist in the area. All of the doctors agreed that she was losing her vision which was causing the confusion.